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"The message, 'Don’t worry, millennials, you can buy a home, you’ll just have a lot more debt for a lot longer,' isn’t the winning policy the government seems to think it is." My latest for the @globeandmail with @CopelanPeter. theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

@MLInstitute Excellent work @josephbvarner

“It increasingly appears Canada has become reluctant to defend lawful military operations, confront foreign interference, protect democratic institutions, or speak openly about coercive behaviour for fear of China’s economic retaliation. The greatest danger is not necessarily open alignment with Beijing, but the gradual normalization of hesitation until Canada begins limiting its own sovereign behaviour before Chinese pressure tactics are even applied,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Joe Varner (@josephbvarner). Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/china-doesnt-e…

This wasn’t a program. It was a government-funded intellectual cleansing

We’re pleased to welcome Raquel Garbers, a leading Canadian geo-strategic expert on gray zone threats, hostile economic statecraft, and defence industrial resilience! A former Director General for Strategic Defence Policy at Canada’s Department of National Defence, she now serves on the Global Advisory Board of the European Values Center for Security Policy (@_EuropeanValues), and is a non-resident senior fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (@ASPI_org).

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@WDiminishment An important discussion. Readers may also appreciate 🔽 youtube.com/watch?v=phGWAq…

Léo Dupire: Has the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrated Canadian institutions? "At our peril, Ottawa downplays the influence of radical Islamist networks operating in Canada." withoutdiminishment.com/p/leo-dupire-h…

@brianleecrowley @CBC @MarcMillerVM @RachaelThomasAB @MLInstitute Proud to work for an institute (@MLInstitute) that defends the legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald!

.@CBC, @MarcMillerVM, @RachaelThomasAB, @MLInstitute. So disappointed at CBC’s scandalous use of taxpayer money to try to humiliate and stigmatise private citizens who defend Sir John A. Macdonald and Canadian history more generally. As my letter details, I too was targeted.

"When the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into force in 1982, many warned that it would undermine the foundations of Canada’s system of parliamentary democracy and usher in a new age of judicial supremacy. For a time, those concerns appeared overstated. Canadian courts exercised a degree of restraint, and the basic contours of Westminster parliamentary governance remained intact. More than 40 years later, that early judicial restraint has largely given way..." macdonaldlaurier.ca/unseating-resp…

An absurd ruling in a Waterloo case last week, where a judge declared homelessness a constitutionally protected class and blocked the region from clearing an encampment on land where a major transit hub is being built, exposes a deeper problem in Canadian democracy. Our most consequential legislators are increasingly judges, using the Charter to invent new rights not based on any precedent to impose radical progressive policy preferences on the rest of us:

"Alberta’s separatist impulse is different—it’s almost entirely about money..." wrote @trevortombe last July. A separate Alberta would be a poorer Alberta Also trending on the @MLInstitute website today... macdonaldlaurier.ca/a-separate-alb…

"If Alberta hopes to achieve greater autonomy within Confederation, it will be won not through grievance or defiance but by lawful and responsible assertion of political will within Canada’s existing constitutional framework. By framing autonomy as an exercise of responsible government – a core doctrine of Canada’s constitutional tradition – the discourse will shift from political protest to institutional legitimacy..." This September 2025 paper is re-trending on the @MLInstitute website... macdonaldlaurier.ca/how-the-west-w…

@colewhogan @christyclarkbc @ABDanielleSmith The replies on this post are not taking the advice from the post... !

Formally requesting Libs like @ChristyClarkBC not make their default approach towards Alberta separatism arrogance & condescension. Clark says, whether separatism succeeds or fails, @ABDanielleSmith "still isn't qualified to be a premier of a province". Tell me how this helps.

@mgeist Always worth reading @mgeist !

Michael Geist Weekly Digest #9: Bill C-22 and a tech exodus from Canada, how lawful access went off the rails, challenging the government's claims about the need for the bill, and a CRTC streaming decision that sets up years of legal and trade battles. linkedin.com/pulse/michael-…

@TheHubCanada @AristotleFdn Really informative. Thanks to @TheHubCanada, @AristotleFdn, @MarkMilke !

Tom Flanagan (@AristotleFdn): The Winds of Change conference failed to unite the Right—but it still set the stage for success thehub.ca/2026/05/22/the…

@MLInstitute An honour to host @robkhenderson at @MLInstitute !

We were thrilled to welcome author and political commentator Rob Henderson—who famously coined the term “luxury beliefs”—as our latest guest at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Voices That Inspire speaker series in Vancouver. In a live conversation with MLI Managing Director @brianleecrowley, Henderson discussed how today’s elites use luxury beliefs to elicit approval from their social circle—espousing fashionable views like “defund the police” or suggesting that marriage is an outdated, patriarchal institution—while hypocritically not following these beliefs in their own lives. Holding these views “separates you from the unwashed masses, the unenlightened rubes,” says @robkhenderson. “And yet, when you look at the behaviours of these same people, they do not abide by these luxury beliefs.” Watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/HTh6PsHyyU8

"Instead of a programmatic effort led by the top to reshape international politics, we see policy entrepreneurs exploit that dysfunctionality to go about their own freelancing, with the PJBD being the latest victim."

@DrCaseyBabb Excellent interview

In this podcast episode, I sit down with renowned extremism expert Dr. Lorenzo Vidino to discuss the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada and throughout the West. Dr. Vidino is the Director of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University. An expert on Islamism in Europe and North America, his research over the past 25 years has focused on the mobilization dynamics of jihadist networks in the West, government counter-radicalization policies, and the activities of Muslim Brotherhood-inspired organizations around the world. Link to the full episode below. Please check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=phGWAq…

@GeoffRuss3 Really excellent. Thanks @GeoffRuss3

Many curious minds, especially young poli sci students and earnest patriots, fall for 'Red Toryism' because it sounds attractive on the surface, like discovering a vintage coat at an estate sale. When worn, however, it is an ideology riddled with stains and holes. It remains a crude, subversive trick to insist that Canada's classic Tory conservatism and socialism belong to the same family simply because they share a dislike of the same liberal party crashers. Canada's founding principles have nothing to do with the twisting of Macdonald, Borden, and others. Gad Horowitz, who coined the term, was not shy about his Marxist-inspired vision of Canada that he tried tying to 1867. It would be nice to retire the 'Red Tory' label, but it keeps popping up like a mosquito, demanding another swatting, as if thrashings at the ballot box were not enough. My latest in @WDiminishment. withoutdiminishment.com/p/geoff-russ-m…

“A poorly designed fund could shift risk to taxpayers, duplicate existing institutions, and use public capital to offset policy barriers governments should be fixing directly. Capital is fungible. Canada has a relatively open economy for foreign direct investment, and investment managers are well-equipped to identify commercially attractive opportunities,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Jerome Gessaroli. In the latest MLI commentary, “The Investment illusion – The Canada Strong Fund treats the symptom, not the cause of Canada’s economic malaise,” Jerome Gessaroli argues the answer may have less to do with access to capital and more to do with Canada’s broader investment climate. Regulatory delays, policy uncertainty, and unclear approval processes continue to make major projects difficult to advance. The proposed Canada Strong Fund, he argues, risks using taxpayer money to compensate for problems governments should be fixing directly. Read full commentary here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-investment…

A reminder of why the notwithstanding clause is so crucial A new paper from the @MLInstitute by @GeoffSigalet, @SunKerry, and @yuanyi_z makes a serious and timely argument about the evolution of Canadian constitutionalism. Their core claim is that the Canadian Charter was introduced as a check on legislative power, but over time, it has become the basis for a much broader transfer of authority from elected governments to the judiciary. The shift has been gradual and largely jurisprudential. It has occurred not through formal constitutional amendment, but through the cumulative effect of judicial decisions. The paper is particularly strong on Section 7 of the Charter, which protects life, liberty, and security of the person. When the Charter was adopted, Section 7 was generally understood as a safeguard against arbitrary state action and a guarantee of basic procedural fairness. Since then, however, the Supreme Court has transformed it into a broad tool for reviewing the substance of government policy. That evolution has had major consequences. In cases involving assisted dying, prostitution, and supervised injection sites, courts have gone well beyond asking whether governments respected due process. They have assessed whether the underlying policy choices were justified, proportionate, and supported by the evidence. In effect, Section 7 has become a vehicle for courts to second-guess the kinds of complex moral and social judgments that were once seen as the responsibility of elected legislatures. Sigalet, Sun, and Zhu also take aim at the Supreme Court’s increasingly expansive use of the “living tree” doctrine more broadly. Constitutional interpretation must allow for some evolution over time. But as they rightly argue, the doctrine has too often been used to justify constitutional change without the consent of Parliament, the provinces, or voters themselves. Even if one doesn't with all of their conclusions, the paper is a thoughtful reminder that Canada’s constitutional system was designed to balance judicial review with parliamentary government. That balance may soon be tested again as the Supreme Court considers Quebec’s pre-emptive use of Section 33. If the Court imposes new limits on the notwithstanding clause, it would further narrow one of the Constitution’s few explicit tools for preserving legislative supremacy.

An overdue corrective to the expansion of judicial power in Canada since 1982. Canada is where the principle responsible government was born, and it’s currently on life support.